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Obama has had a day, I'd say. Individual mandate upheld, and Holder excoriated (well, held in contempt, anyway). I would imagine he has a hard time figuring out what to talk about. But, no fear; talk, he will.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), while speaking on the House floor opposing the contempt charges of Attorney General Eric Holder, actually botched the name of slain border patrol agent Brian Terry.

As she expressed condolences to his family, Pelosi called him "Brian Tay, Tay, Terry" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Video at link

NANCY PELOSI: I think we all also agree, I think we all very, very much agree that we are very sad and seek justice for the family of border patrol agent Brian Tay, Tay, Terry. His loss is a tragedy for all who knew him, for all of us who care about him, and we offer our condolences to his family. So sad.

You would think someone would actually know how to pronounce the name of the person you're expressing condolences for.

Shows how on top of this investigation the Minority Leader is, doesn't it?

Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Brian Terry wasn't the kind of person that Pelosi associated with. He didn't attend Georgetown cocktail parties or San Francisco fundraisers, so to her, he was a non-person. Getting his name wrong was just part of that lack of concern for him, his family and the 200-300 Mexicans murdered by the drug cartels with those weapons.

I just finished Paul Johnson's book, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.). One of the recurring traits of intellectuals of the left is their lack of empathy for real people. They are emphatic about ideas and grand gestures, but utterly indifferent to individual suffering, especially if they cause it. Pelosi is nobody's idea of an intellectual, but she follows their lead.